I’m MDing Legally Blonde right now (along with every other music director in America right now)-thank you for the insights!! I’m stick conducting and it was a tough fight for the paper score with Keys 1😅
Hey Kevin! Been awhile. This was an awesome video! I have been getting into information science recently, and it is really fascinating to hear about the variations on music director resources and how the information provided by a PV ostensibly helps concretely set the show’s identity!
I'm currently playing the piano conductors score piano accompaniment for a local high school doing Anastasia...and when it comes time for the paid orchestra to converge I move to the keyboard II position. I find the piano conductors score so rich in information, that I'd rather mark-up notes on that score than use the intended keyboard II book....so much easier to follow (of course there are exceptions). Great job.
My music is in the lead sheet stage of development, as I would call it at this point, but even these lead sheets I can't prepare myself, as I'm not a composer/musician, I just write lyrics and I write these lyrics to the preexisting (mostly old melodies). Where I can find someone who can help me to write these lead sheets for about 25 songs of my musical and help me with finishing up the libretto as well? Although I can't afford much, but I'm ready to pay for it, of course.
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It depends on the SM and ASM. I've had some of them who can read music really well and wanted the PC score. The PCS also has a lot more info and often stage cues that would be more beneficial to the ASM/SM
I have had a lot of fun going back through your old videos. how do you come up with video ideas? i never get how youtubers do it :/ THANKS FOR DOING WHAT YOU DO!
Hmmm...I've been looking for the les mis piano vocal score online and can only find the conductor score...I kinda wanna do a cut of Javert's Suicide, but the conductor version has sooooo much stuff I don't know what to put in the piano part for my version. Any chance you want to send it to me? :)
Interesting question. Some shows have 2 or more key players and the conductor just conducts, which is what I thought happened when you get past rehearsals and the sitzprobe happens. I didn't think the conductor played hardly During shows. From my experience and what I've seen. The key 1 book is another score in itself that often is just the key 1 part not so much the orchestration, just the dots and the patch information. I could be very wrong but I'm sure Kevin will confirm or deny when he gets a minute.
That’s a good point. It really all depends on the people you have working on the show and the orchestration. I know some people would like to stick conduct and some people piano conduct and play a piano part for the show
